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May 15, 2009

G36: Mariners 5, Red Sox 4

Lester was hurt by the long ball again -- Ichiro Suzuki hit dongs in consecutive innings -- and the Red Sox bats came up empty against the Seattle pen, including last night's closer, David Aardsma.

In 47 innings this season, Lester has given up 10 home runs. He allowed only 14 in 210.1 innings last year.

Bright spots: Jacoby Ellsbury and J.D. Drew both went 3-for-5. Lyndon doubled, tripled and singled in the first four innings. Daniel Bard pitched 1.1 scoreless innings, getting out of a self-made jam in the seventh; he did not record a strikeout.

After a nice game against the Yankees, Lester was pummeled in his last start, allowing eight runs and 10 hits to Tampa Bay in 4.1 innings.

Jakubauskas suffered similar abuse from the Twins in his last outing (4.1-8-9-3-0, 103). (It's a shame we can't hear Jerry Remy attempt to pronounce the rookie right-hander's name tonight.) Seattle has lost nine of its last 10 games.

Also: Manny Ramirez had no traces of hCG in his system, but he is not in the clear (no pun intended) by any means. ... Jim Leyritz, awaiting trial on DUI manslaughter charges, reportedly threatened suicide and voluntarily checked himself into a psychiatric ward.

Amy I bet if you were to just go to bed now you'll feel a lot better waking up at 5. Heh, it's so hard when the Red Sox are playing. I remember years ago on school nights! I'd be a zombie the next morning because I'd stay up to watch.

Okay, so at Fenway, every pre-game ends with some kid they found on Yawkey Way yelling "the two words we all long to hear" into a microphone ("play ball"). I heard a kid yell "play ball" in Anaheim this weekend, and now in Seattle. It seems like everyone just wants to be us these days...

"Jesus, alot of whining about how late it is, remember when you were younger and the party didn't start till midnight.......Wake up People.."

9er, you just said what I think every time I hear this stuff. My thing is, It's a Red Sox game! I got up at 6 AM for the Japan games, why can't the morning people stay up late a few times a year?? I dunno, maybe it's just cuz I grew up listening to the west coast games as age 8 under the covers secretly...

This guy has no number on his bat knob. I wonder if there's one guy on every team who just waits, makes sure everyone else has written his number on his knob, and then just puts all his bats in the rack and goes, "the blanks are mine."

I remember thinking in the first that Jacoby had 3. But he stopped at second. Then when he hit it in the gap in the second, I saw that Bailey scored and started typing, and didn't realize Jacoby got to third until L said it. The weird thing was, I thought, hey, halfway to the cycle, thinking that was a double and the 1st one was a triple. Then I remembered it was a double in the first and was like, Aww, NOT halfway to cycle. Until L said it.

I was writing a much longer version of this complete with crazy logic and reasoning, glad to see you summed it up, and Amy, glad to see you're sticking around to see what happens. My girlfriend (morning type) does this sometimes--I can see going to bed, but you can't leave in a key spot!

okay, I've got a good one. What's the most runs scored in a game with no multiple-run half-innings? I mean, in history, not potentially, as that answer would be a non-ending game. Or, infinity minus one.

how come announcers don't understand that if the hitter stands there and makes no attempt to run to first, it's gonna be foul, on those long flies? Don has done it twice tonight, and a lot in the past.

Jere saw that inside the parker. A most frustrating game to watch, the Twins had Hughes on the ropes ALL FUCKING NIGHT and couldn't cash in. I was already in my "MFY lost tonight so the Sox can pick up a game on them" mode. The MFY have been rolling over in games that that this year, not tonight. Nathan was awful.